# Fantasy landscape with St Charles Borromeo

- By: Henry Ferguson (The Hague, 1665–1730)
- Date: c. 1700 - c. 1720
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 130.5 cm x width 195.5 cm
- Credit line: Gift of H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5006--1743a12644295ef0053d008e4cc6a1a0)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6314f8ec284cc1ff258d5926772c2dff.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Ferguson, who was born in Holland but spent much of his life in France, specialised in painting sculpture and ruins. This elaborate fantasy is based on the French classicising landscape tradition, and includes the figure of St Charles Borromeo indicating an oversized antique sarcophagus which bears a relief of Christ’s nativity. It is clearly allegorical, but the exact meaning is obscure.